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2522 opportunities documented Updated Aug 20, 2026
Showing 1249–1272 of 2522 opportunities

ADR UK Research Fellowships 2025 (RF2025): Closed Historical Reference

Historical reference for the closed ADR UK Research Fellowships 2025 call: an 18-month fellowship using ADR England flagship datasets, with up to £200,000 FEC support.

Status: Historical Type: Fellowship Amount: Up to £200,000 (100% FEC; ESRC funds up to 80%) Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom

Young Champions of the Earth 2026 (Historical Reference): UNEP's Global Prize With US$10,000 Seed Funding and Mentorship

The United Nations Environment Programme's 2026 Young Champions of the Earth award offered young environmental changemakers aged 18-30 US$10,000 in seed funding, mentorship, training, expert access, and global publicity. The 2026 nomination window closed on 15 April 2026; UNEP has not announced a 2027 opening date.

Status: Historical Type: Prize Amount: US$10,000 seed funding for each 2026 Young Champion, plus mentorship, capacity-building … Deadline: Historical reference Location: Global

WIPO Global Awards

Recognition for SMEs and startups that use intellectual property to create commercial value and social impact.

Status: Historical Type: Prize Amount: Global visibility, 25 hours of tailored mentoring, and ecosystem-partner support Deadline: Historical reference Location: Global

Whickers Podcast Pitch 2026: £15,000 Audio Documentary Award (Historical Reference)

Historical reference for the Whickers Podcast Pitch 2026, which offered a £15,000 production award, a £5,000 runner-up award, and Sheffield DocFest access for selected audio documentary makers.

Status: Historical Type: Prize Amount: £15,000 production award (winner); £5,000 runner-up Deadline: Historical reference

Western Union Global Fellowship 2026: 16-week entrepreneurship program for leaders serving displaced communities

The Western Union Global Fellowship 2026 is a fully funded entrepreneurship and leadership fellowship for founders and community leaders serving refugee, displaced, or highly marginalized communities.

Status: Rolling Type: Fellowship Amount: Fully funded fellowship with financial and community-development stipends; amounts not published Deadline: Rolling or ongoing Location: United States, Costa Rica, India, Philippines, Lithuania, Argentina, Italy, Brazil and Peru

WashU International Research Internship: Summer 2026 Historical Reference

Historical reference for WashU McKelvey School of Engineering's closed Summer 2026 international research internship: a 10-week placement with a $3,000 stipend, housing, and local public transportation.

Status: Historical Type: Funding Opportunity Amount: $3,000 stipend + free housing + local public transportation Deadline: Historical reference Location: St. Louis and USA

WanaData Fellowships 2026: Digitalise Youth Voices in Africa (Closed)

A closed 2026 CfA fellowship for data journalists and data scientists building gender, digital rights, and youth civic engagement work across the Sahel, neighbouring West Africa, and the Horn of Africa.

Status: Historical Type: Fellowship Amount: USD 250 per month for 6-month fellowship Deadline: Historical reference

Visegrad+ Grants 2026

Visegrad+ Grants support projects that contribute to democratization and transformation in the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership regions through meaningful V4 cooperation. The announced 2026 call opens 1 September and closes 1 October, with typical grants of €25,000–€35,000.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: Typical grants €25,000–€35,000 Deadline: Oct 1, 2026 Location: Europe

Video games and gambling-related harms

Historical UKRI grant opportunity for research on the relationship between gambling and video games, with a total fund of £5,000,000 and up to £1,000,000 FEC per project.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Up to £1,000,000 (FEC per project); total funding £5,000,000 Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom

VA-SPORTS-26A: Amendment Round for Grants for Adaptive Sports Programs for Disabled Veterans and Disabled Members of the Armed Forces

Historical reference for the closed VA-SPORTS-26A amendment window. The round was limited to organizations that successfully submitted VA-SPORTS-26 and did not create a separate funding pool or a new application opportunity.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: The VA-SPORTS-26 NOFO announced up to $16,000,000 in total program funding and a maximum of … Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program External Research Support FY2027

The U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program solicited competitive FY2027 external research grants on earthquake hazards, earthquake physics and occurrence, and earthquake safety policy. The cycle is closed and retained here as a historical reference.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Program funding shown as $4,000,000 Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

USDOT Safe Streets and Roads for All Grants (FY 2026): Historical Reference

Competitive federal grant for planning and implementing multi-jurisdictional roadway safety programs, crash reduction projects, and data-driven traffic injury prevention initiatives.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Up to $993,488,194 total for FY 2026: $687,809,874 for Implementation Grants and $305,678,320 … Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

USDA Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program (VMLRP) FY2026 Historical Reference

The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program repays qualified veterinary educational loans for veterinarians who serve in designated veterinary shortage situations. This page preserves the closed FY2026 cycle while noting that NIFA has not published a FY2027 NOFO or day-specific application deadline.

Status: Historical Type: Loan Repayment Amount: FY2026 anticipated funding $25,500,000 Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States and U.S. Insular Areas

USDA Rural Development Distance Learning & Telemedicine Grants (FY 2026)

A completed FY 2026 USDA Rural Development competitive grant cycle supporting telecommunications-enabled distance learning and telemedicine services in rural communities.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: $50,000 to $750,000 per award; approximately $27 million available; 40 expected awards Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

USDA NIFA Open Data Framework (ODF) FY 2026

The FY 2026 Open Data Framework (ODF) NOFO offered one anticipated research award to build a neutral, secure agricultural data repository and cooperative that could help producers, universities, nonprofit entities, and other agricultural participants share data for innovation, productivity, markets, invasive-species response, soil health, and food quality.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: $923,325 (fixed award amount; no match required) Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

USDA NRCS Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program (VPA-HIP), FY 2026 — Historical Reference

Historical reference for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service FY 2026 competitive grant that supported state and federally recognized tribal programs expanding voluntary public access to private farm, ranch, and forest land for wildlife-dependent recreation.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Up to $52,000,000 available; expected 23–30 awards; expected award size $100,000–$3,000,000 Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

USDA NRCS Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) Classic Program FY2026 (Historical Reference)

Historical reference for the USDA NRCS FY2026 Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) Classic Program, a national competition for field-tested conservation innovations that can be transferred to agricultural producers. The FY2026 application window closed on July 27, 2026; NRCS has not announced a FY2027 CIG Classic round in the official sources checked for this refresh.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Expected $15,000,000 total; 18–22 awards of $250,000–$2,000,000 each Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

USDA NRCS CIG On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials FY2026

Closed FY2026 Natural Resources Conservation Service competition for projects that help producers adopt and evaluate innovative conservation approaches, with $50 million expected federal funding, 20–30 expected awards, and awards from $250,000 to $5,000,000.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: US$250,000 minimum to US$5,000,000 maximum per award; $50 million expected federal funding Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States and U.S. territories

USDA NIFA KMB-32361: Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program (Historical Reference)

Historical reference for the closed FY 2026 USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program, which funded applied Cooperative Extension education for disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: $20,000 to $115,000 per standard grant (FY 2026 program funding: approximately $459,564) Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

USDA-NIFA-EME-32358: Renewable Resources Extension Act National Focus Fund Projects (RREA-NFF)

Historical FY2026 USDA-NIFA RREA-NFF standard grant opportunity for national or regional Extension projects on tree planting and reforestation or invasive-animal control in forest and rangeland systems. The June 8, 2026 cycle is closed and no later cycle is listed on the official program page.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: $130,000 to $150,000 Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

USDA NIFA Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) Research Grants 2026

The FY2026 AG2PI research program funds interdisciplinary genomics, phenomics, and data science projects to improve crop and livestock breeding and production through standard USDA NIFA grants.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: $300,000 to $900,000 per standard research grant Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

USDA-NIFA-CEGP-32987 Equipment Grants Program (EGP)

Historical reference for USDA NIFA's FY 2026 Equipment Grants Program, which funded shared-use special-purpose research equipment for eligible higher-education and state cooperative institutions. The FY 2026 application window is closed and no later EGP round is listed by NIFA.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Approximately $2,800,000 available; standard grants from $25,000 to $500,000 Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

USDA-NIFA-DAG2PI-32942: Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative - Workshop Grants (FY 2026)

Historical reference for USDA-NIFA's FY 2026 AG2PI Workshop Grants opportunity, which closed on June 29, 2026 and has no replacement cycle announced on the official program page.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: $20,000 to $50,000 per award; $50,000 available for the workshop grant component Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States

FY 2026 SNAP Process and Technology Improvement Grants (PTIG)

Historical reference for USDA Food and Nutrition Administration's FY 2026 SNAP Process and Technology Improvement Grants. The closed competition supported technology and process projects that improve SNAP application and eligibility operations, with requests from $20,000 to $2,000,000.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Up to $5,000,000 total; anticipated six to 12 awards; award floor $20,000 Deadline: Historical reference Location: United States